> > The place this is used inside of setup.py is here: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/setup.py#L14 > > I really dislike this build feature, it repeatedly trips me up. In my > opinion, the build should be changed to always do separate compilation, and > the single file mode should be eradicated. >
Nobody *likes* this build "feature". If it can be eradicated let's do it, but when I wanted to early on I couldn't for various reasons. I'm not convinced these reasons have been addressed. The big problem I had (if I remember correctly) was getting the NumPy C-API to be exportable on all platforms (yet having the variables be static and hidden from the shared symbol-space) if it was assembled from multiple files. The NumPy C-API uses a clever trick that was invented for Python back in the late 90s which was important for getting extensions that used the NumPy C-API to work on several platforms. If we can be assured that platforms that might have needed that are no longer needing NumPy (or there are work-arounds), then we can certainly get rid of a single-file build mode. -Travis
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